Prickly-pear or cactus burner.



No. 634,130. Patented Oct. 3, I899.'

.1. s. ELLISON. I

PBIGKLY PEAR 0R GACTUS BURNER.

(Application 5106 Feb. 21, 1898.)

(No llodel.)

Wikzesse ln ventor I By lei} Howey V UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

J FF STOREY ELLISON, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF TO ORS ON E. HOUGH, OF SAME PLACE.

PRlCKLY-PEAR oR GACTUS BU RN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ?atent No. 634,130, dated October 3, 1893.

Application filecl'Pehrnary 21,1898. Serial No. 671,128. (No mndel.)

To all whom'zlt may concern:

Be it known that I, J EFF STOREY ELLISON,

Prickly-Pear or Cactus Burner, of which the.

following is a specification.-

My object is to provide an improved portable gasolene-burner adapted to deliver an intense flame for destroying the p'ricklesof the prickly-pearor cactus common to prairie land which may be operated with economy and facility.

The-invention consists of a portable supplytank having a suitable air-compressor and a supply-pipe connected thereto which is provided with a burner of. novel construction, a pressure regulating or equalizing chamber, and other improved means set forth'in detail hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the entire burner. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout both views.

A is a cylindrical tank of convenient size, of galvanized iron or other suitable material, provided with sets of loops Lon its sides, to which a strap can be connected to afiord means for attaching the device to the person.

B is a screw-valve for filling the tank with gasolene,

O is an iron outlet-pipe inside the tank, which goes up from near the bottom of the tank and passes out of the top of the tank to a globe-valve E for opening and closing the burner at will. To the other end of the globe-valve E is fixed by a flexible tube F, of india-rubber or other suitable material, an iron pipe G, which is formed at the front into a coil 1. This pipe-coil I is wound backward around the pipe, and the end H of the pipe, which is closed by a screw-cap it, goes up in rear of and above the coil and has opposite the center opening of the coil a hole or the its length the pipe 1 is provided with a pressure-regulating chamber H, which may be made of a piece of pipe, the one end connected by a T-fitting to the pipe and the other end closed by a cap, or instead of the piece of pipe apear-shaped pressure-regulating chamber may be used.

K is a wire wick inside the whole length of the pipe, reaching intothe coil, to carry the heat, after the coil is once heated by the flame, fart-her backward into the pipe.

D is afibulb aiF-pump, of india-rubb'er or other suitable material, with an air-valve d,

connected by a flexible tube cl to a nipple on top of the tank A. This pump Dis for pumping the air into the gasolene-tank A, whereby the gasolene is forced through the pipe 0 into the burner, and as the pipe 0 reaches near the bottom of the tank A all the gasolene is forced out into the burner Without changing the positionof the tank A. The pressure having been pumped up in the tank, the oil is forced down the pipe and into the burner, and having been lighted the flame plays inside the coil, thus heightening the op eration of vaporization. The wick conveys 7 5 the heat backward in the pipe, which further facilitates and assists vaporization, and the pressure equalizing or regulating chamber equalizes the pressure in the pipe.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent, is

1. In a device of the class described, the combination with a portable supply-tank, of a feed-pipe leading therefrom which is formed into a heating or vaporizing coil having a portion provided with a burner which is adapted to'direct its flame on the'coil and terminating in a closed end which constitutes a vapor-pressu re chamber.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with a supply-tank, of a feedpipe leading therefrom which is formed into a heating or vaporizing coil which terminates in an extended portion having a burner dis- 5 posed away from the coil in position to direct its flame within and upon the same and having a'sectionlocated beyond the burner which is provided with a removable cap and serves as a vapor-pressure chamber.

JEFF STOREY ELLISON.

Witnesses:

0. E. Houcn, ELFRIEDE BEHRENS. 

